Bot Computing using the Power of Wiki Collaboration

Abstract

Bot computing using the power of Wiki collaboration and an experimental implementation of the bot running environment are discussed. While botnets are usually created for malicious purposes, the bot computing in this study aims to use bots for beneficial purposes. The massively parallel and persistence features of a botnet can enhance its computing power and high availability for beneficial computing. Bot computing can also enhance people's collaboration by introducing dynamic Web pages to previously static Wiki networks. Parallel dynamic programming for solving a minimal path problem is shown as an example. Resources such as the number of bots and the number of web pages were proportional to the number of nodes, and the time to solve the minimal path problem was proportional to the number of arcs of the minimal path.